Suffruticose, diffuse, thinly strigillose, subcanescent; branches flexuous, distichous, angular; leaves short-petioled, 2-3-jugate, leaflets elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, flat, one-nerved, thinly strigilloso-canescent on both sides, the terminal petiolate; stipules minute, subulate; racemes spicate on long peduncles, gradually elongating, and laxly many-flowered; flowers subsessile, bracts minute; calyx canescent, its segments short, acute; petals externally pubescent; legumes subterete, bluntly-angular, straight, very acute, thinly strigilloso-canescent.
Decumbent or sprawling shrub to 80 cm or higher when clambering through other vegetation, stems greyish. Leaves pinnately 5-7-foliolate, petiole 4-8 mm long, leaflets elliptic-oblong to linear, thinly hairy. Flowers in racemes on peduncles ± as long as leaves, brick-red, calyx 2-3 mm long, lobes lanceolate, ± equalling to twice length of tube, back of standard petal grey-hairy. Pods pale, thinly hairy, apex sharply acute.